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Food Truck Friday returns to Green Cove Springs with 17 Trucks, 40+ vendors, live entertainment

Food Truck Friday will return to Spring Park in Green Cove Springs on Friday from 5 to 9:30 p.m., featuring 17 food trucks, more than 40 local vendors and live music.

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Jul 3 • 9:41 AM EDT • Entertainment • news4jax.com
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'Milestone': Scientists claim to build synthetic cell, raising concerns in step toward artificial life

University of Minnesota researchers say "SpudCell" is the most life-like synthetic cell yet, able to grow, divide and pass traits to offspring.

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Jul 2 • 8:30 PM EDT • Science • foxnews.com
Barriers to understanding how many people use AI for mental health support: an estimate and narrative review

npj Digital Public Health - Barriers to understanding how many people use AI for mental health support: an estimate and narrative review

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Jul 2 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Global dietary estimates for conducting health, environmental and economic impact assessments

Nature Food - The Global Dietary Database for Impact Assessments provides information on what people eat across countries and demographic groups by integrating data on food availability,...

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Jul 2 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Changing COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 mortality in older adults in Australia, 2022-2025

Communications Health - Changing COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 mortality in older adults in Australia, 2022-2025

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Jul 2 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
‘Check Your Political Identities at the Door’: Lawmakers Come to UVA Darden to Practice Leadership

A select group of state legislators will gather at UVA Darden for a nonpartisan leadership program focused on productive disagreement, values-based decision-making and leading across political differences.

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Jul 2 • 7:34 PM EDT • Politics • news.darden.virginia.edu
Providing Outdoor Science Education

Science Kids was one of 15 nonprofits that received funding from the Sheridan-Johnson Counties Local Board of the Wyoming Community Foundation as part of their spring competitive grant cycle. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has more. Science Kids in Sheridan started in 2009. The nonprofit provides outdoor, hands-on science education and summertime classes for youth ages […]

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Jul 2 • 7:25 PM EDT • Science • sheridanmedia.com
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Spring Sports Wrap Up 2025: Strong Finishes and Playoff Highlights

Written by Sergio Uriarte. Last Updated July 2, 2026 in CHS Bulldogs. As the spring season draws to a close, our student-athletes wrapped up their respective seasons with grit, sportsmanship, and impressive performances.

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Jul 2 • 6:01 PM EDT • Sports • calexicochronicle.com
2 dead after shooting at Springfield Mercy Hospital parking garage; mental health experts urge grace for grieving staff

Two people are dead after a shooting at a Mercy Hospital parking garage early Thursday morning, and mental health professionals are urging those affected — including hospital staff — to be patient with themselves as they grieve.

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Jul 2 • 5:59 PM EDT • Health • ky3.com
France Politics

France's President Emmanuel Macron chairs the fifth follow-up meeting on combating drug trafficking, at the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris, Thursday July 2, 2026. (Simon Wohlfahrt/Pool Photo via AP)

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Jul 2 • 8:13 AM EDT • Politics • springfieldnewssun.com
TPS decision causing uncertainty for Haitian business owners

While the legal battle over ending protections for Haitians continues, uncertainty is growing at area businesses in Springfield

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Jul 2 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • spectrumnews1.com
TPS decision causing uncertainty for Haitian business owners

While the legal battle over ending protections for Haitians continues, uncertainty is growing at area businesses in Springfield

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Jul 2 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • spectrumnews1.com
Springfield trash company accused of unfair business practices

Customers tell KY3 they weren't given complete information about the service terms by GFL Environmental representatives.

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Jul 1 • 8:46 PM EDT • Business • ky3.com
Apple Is Reportedly Planning A Visual Refresh Of The Entry-Level MacBook Pro Next Year

Next spring could be a fiesta of new iPads, MacBooks and iPhones.

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Jul 1 • 6:52 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
ENTERTAINMENT: ‘Footloose’ at Murry’s; ‘Glee’ hits mark 4 years for ATLR

To mark its fourth birthday, Actors Theatre of Little Rock actors will perform hits from the TV show “Glee” for “Little Rock Sings: Glee!”, 6:30 p.m. Monday at Camp Taco, 822 E. Sixth St., Little Rock.

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Jul 1 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • arkansasonline.com
Penn State's Rocco Becht praises QB2 Alex Manske

Penn State quarterback Alex Manske faces a critical path forward after an injury sidelined his spring development.

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Jul 1 • 3:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Best of the Valley 2026: Our Favorites in Lifestyle & Entertainment

The Valley’s wellspring of cultural diversions - festivals, the arts, fitness, et al. - has never been deeper or more diverse. Grab your swimsuit and dive in!

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Jul 1 • 10:43 AM EDT • Entertainment • phoenixmag.com
Fire breaks out at Springfield business Wednesday morning

Crews are battling a fire at a Springfield business.

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Jul 1 • 8:45 AM EDT • Business • westernmassnews.com
Kustom Entertainment Reports Record Country Stampede Attendance Ahead of Gilley’s Park City Partnership

Kustom Entertainment reports record attendance at its Country Stampede festival, highlighting strong demand and a new partnership with Gilley’s Park City.Quiver AI SummaryKustom Entertainment, Inc. has announced record attendance for its 30th anniversary Country Stampede festival, held from June 25–27, 2026, at Azura Amphitheater in Bonner Springs, KS, attracting over 42,000 fans, surpassing expectations by more than 10,000 attendees. The festiva

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Jul 1 • 7:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • quiverquant.com
Academy Sports + Outdoors coming to Siloam Springs

Marc Hayot/Herald-Leader Construction workers prepare the ground to build the new Academy Sports + Outdoors in between the Walmart Supercenter and Lowe's Home Improvement on June 24. An opening date has not been set, said Kelley Jones, senior external communications specialist for Academy Sports + Outdoors.

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Jul 1 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • nwaonline.com
Bethesda Health Clinic reaches $25M fundraising goal for new Tyler facility

Clinic says new 61,000-square-foot building will serve 50% more uninsured patients starting spring 2027

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Jun 30 • 11:36 PM EDT • Health • kltv.com
Community Health Workers Learn Perinatal Outreach Approaches at UAMS Training

LITTLE ROCK — Twenty community health workers (CHWs) from across Arkansas recently gathered in Springdale with a shared goal: to build connections and learn how to better support mothers across the state. Hosted by the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation, the three-day Perinatal CHW Upskill Training provided interactive, hands-on…

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Jun 30 • 11:08 AM EDT • Health • news.uams.edu
Building the Valley: Young Springdale man keeping lawns at bay as business grows

When Justin Burrell started landscaping in 2022, the then-14-year-old wasn’t old enough to drive himself to clients’ houses so he enlisted help from his parents. At first, he mowed lawns for some extra pocket change. Now, at 18, Burrell is working toward turn his Burrell Grounds and Services business into

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Jun 30 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • triblive.com
Who should be Faber Builders Girls Athlete of the Spring?

It's time to pick the top athlete from the spring high school season.

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Jun 30 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Tulare County group launches scholarship for STEM, business students

The program is still in its early stages, but organizers say they're prepared to launch the scholarships in the spring.

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Jun 29 • 8:06 PM EDT • Business • abc30.com
Gaining biological insights through supervised data visualization

Nature Computational Science - This study introduces RF-PHATE, a supervised visualization method that preserves data structure while revealing biological patterns, enabling insights into disease...

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Jun 29 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
Interferometric scattering for optical tomoslicing of transparent solids

Light: Science & Applications - Interferometric scattering for optical tomoslicing of transparent solids

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Jun 29 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
Eagles 53-man roster prediction: Updated after spring practices

Here’s a look at how Philadelphia’s 2026 team could be shaping up.

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Jun 29 • 4:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Small business is about people helping people

Local Chamber president Mike Murphy says it means jobs for our community.

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Jun 29 • 12:22 PM EDT • Business • capitolcitynow.com
Silver Spring business releases 600,000 infected mosquitoes in DC area

In an innovative way to decrease the mosquito population, when one of the male ZAP mosquitoes being released mates with a female, she will no longer be able to produce offspring.

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Jun 29 • 10:54 AM EDT • Technology • wtop.com
Silver Spring business releases 600,000 infected mosquitoes in DC area

In an innovative way to decrease the mosquito population, when one of the male ZAP mosquitoes being released mates with a female, she will no longer be able to produce offspring.

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Jun 29 • 10:54 AM EDT • Business • wtop.com
Alicia Keys cries, Springsteen speaks during emotional Clive Davis funeral

Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys and more stars are turning out to honor Clive Davis.

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Jun 29 • 10:48 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Star-maker Clive Davis honored at funeral that draws Bruce Springsteen, Dionne Warwick and others

Kenny G played a mournful sax solo to kick off the funeral for music legend Clive Davis. Pop music royalty, including Bruce Springsteen, Barry Manilow, Stevie Wonder and Dionne Warwick,

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Jun 29 • 10:22 AM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com
Some upcoming public talks on shark science and conservation

I will be giving some public talks on shark science and conservation this summer. Here’s how to find me! Tuesday, July 7th, Silver Spring, Maryland (Wheaton Library, 5:30 P.M.) This talk is k…

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Jun 29 • 7:54 AM EDT • Science • southernfriedscience.com
Aligning patient and planetary health: planetary health diet adherence and inflammatory bowel disease prognosis across Western and Eastern cohorts

npj Science of Food - Aligning patient and planetary health: planetary health diet adherence and inflammatory bowel disease prognosis across Western and Eastern cohorts

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Jun 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Prevalence and severity of mental health problems in early-career researchers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Nature Human Behaviour - Mental health concerns among early-career researchers are increasingly gaining attention. This preregistered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis quantifies...

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Jun 28 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Prediction market Kalshi sues Illinois over its push to regulate sports bets

The most recent move in the ongoing legal battle between the state and prediction market operators came after the state enacted new sports wagering taxes to support the $55.9 billion budget it passed this spring.

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Jun 28 • 5:14 PM EDT • Sports • kwqc.com
Panthers rookie WR shares his offseason work in highlight tape

Panthers rookie WR Chris Brazzell II impressed at spring workouts, and he hasn't slowed down during his summer break. Check out his highlights . . .

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Jun 28 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Employees of downtown businesses in metro Atlanta city will get special parking

Change is coming to downtown parking in Powder Springs.

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Jun 28 • 10:58 AM EDT • Business • wsbtv.com
Blue Jays' George Springer: Headed for paternity list

Blue Jays' George Springer: Headed for paternity list

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Jun 27 • 10:56 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
2027 iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e to Get 9GB RAM and A20 Chip

The lower-end iPhone 18 models set to launch in spring 2027 will feature 9GB DRAM, up from 8GB, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Kuo says the A20 chip Apple plans to use for the devices will have 1.5GB x 6 dies for a total of 9GB RAM, instead of 2GB x 4 dies as the current lower-end iPhone 17 models use. By lower-end iPhones, Kuo is likely referencing the iPhone 18 and the iPhone 18e, both of which are rumored to be coming around March or April of 2027.

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Jun 26 • 12:57 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Memorial Health Championship in full swing in Springfield

Organizers are also offering additional attractions beyond golf, including food trucks, the Scheels Fan Zone and Family Fun Day on Saturday, which features a superhero theme for children and families.

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Jun 26 • 6:15 AM EDT • Health • capitolcitynow.com
College Sports Communicators Recognize Strelow with Writing Awards

BOONE, N.C. — App State's award-winning strategic communications staff added more honors this spring, as Bret Strelow was recognized for two stories in the Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest that's conducted by the College Sports Communicators organization.

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Jun 26 • 6:04 AM EDT • Sports • appstatesports.com
Notre Dame 2026 Player Profile: Wide Receiver Devin Fitzgerald

As the son of an NFL legend, this physical Arizona standout is already flashing elite route-running and contested-catch skills after a dominant spring debut in South Bend.

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Jun 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
It's Xbox's turn (again), as console prices keep going up

Microsoft announced a price hike for the Xbox Series consoles today, the third in little over a year. Effective August 1, the Xbox Series S, which launched in 2020 for $300, will cost $500 in the U.S. The Xbox Series X, which launched in 2020 at $500, will go for $800. This follows a round of PlayStation 5 price increases from Sony this spring, and a slow-motion increase for Nintendo’s Switch 2, which will kick in in the U.S. in September. (Mind you, there were also eight video game industry price hikes in six months of 2025). The chart up top shows the sudden ascent of console prices over the past year, a sudden surge in an already unusual hardware generation. Prices had been flat for years, now “up” is the new “flat.” Game console prices used to go down across the length of a console generation, but not this time around. Microsoft’s explanation for the new price hike today: We hoped another price increase would not be necessary, and we have spent the last several months working with suppliers on options. Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027. The entire consumer electronics industry is struggling with the current components crisis, but the effects are particularly hard on consoles. Unlike phones, computers, speakers, and other consumer devices, consoles are typically not sold at a profit, but instead for less than they cost to make. This is an issue well beyond game consoles. Apple announced price hikes on its computers and tablets today as well. Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Item 2: Brutal Bungie cuts Bungie laid off “most” of its Destiny development team and some developers who worked on Marathon, the newest game from the struggling Sony-owned studio. A WARN notice issued by Sony to Washington State, where Bungie is based, tallied cuts impacting 292 workers, effective next month. That’s strictly for Bungie/Sony jobs in Washington and wouldn’t account for any elsewhere. The video I clipped below shows the redacted list of Bungie cuts filed to Washington State officials. As you’ll see, I had to scroll for a while… In a note emailed to PlayStation workers and published online, PlayStation game studios chief Hermen Hulst offered the following explanation for these latest cuts at Bungie: This is painful news, especially for talented colleagues whose roles have been eliminated. This decision was made only after extensive discussion and careful consideration, and I want to provide some context on how we arrived here. Over the past several months, together with Bungie leadership, we reviewed the studio’s long-term direction, development priorities, resource needs, and role within our broader portfolio strategy. We explored multiple alternatives before concluding that a reduction was necessary to align the studio’s resources with its current priorities and long-term goals. In 2022, Sony bought Bungie for $3.7 billion. The studio’s marquee game, the multiplayer live service shooter Destiny 2 was losing popularity at the time. Its next game Marathon, released earlier this year, has been well-reviewed but had a slow start. Bungie is renowned for making great shooter games, and Destiny fans have mourned the wind-down of Destiny 2. They’ve also expressed bewilderment over reports that Destiny 3 is not, per Bloomberg, immediately in the cards.

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Jun 25 • 8:21 PM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
Generative artificial intelligence creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers

npj Science of Food - Generative artificial intelligence creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers

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Jun 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
Dopant-localized mechanoluminescence in simple oxides

Light: Science & Applications - Dopant-localized mechanoluminescence in simple oxides

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Jun 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
Mental health as both outcome and determinant in climate adaptation

Nature Climate Change - Mental health should not be viewed solely as a passive outcome of climate adaptation. Rather, it serves as a key determinant of cognitive capacity and shapes the...

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Jun 25 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health AI applications

Nature Medicine - Adversarial evaluation of leading AI models uncovers gaps between benchmark success and robustness, highlighting limitations in current health AI benchmarks and their ability to...

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Winter Sports Club to raise Olympian banners July 3 at Olympian Hall

The Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club will raise banners to the rafters of Olympian Hall at Howelsen Hill to honor the area’s most recent Olympians. The event will take place from 4-5:30 p.m. on July...

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Jun 25 • 5:50 PM EDT • Sports • steamboatpilot.com
Making Our Own Luck

We are cross-posting a piece that former NIH official Kris Willis wrote for Macroscience. Kris is now the President and Founder of the Woodley Park Institute, for which I’m a board member. Picking winners or hedging bets? Federal science agencies have long wrestled with the question of how to ensure their billions of dollars of grants and contracts result in maximum benefits for Americans. On the surface, it might seem that a goal-oriented, interventionist style of management would be the best policy: prioritize our most pressing problems and distribute funding accordingly.This top-down strategy creates a unique hazard, though: bad choices can send resources in the wrong direction, resulting in slow progress that impedes the delivery of tangible benefits to citizens. Moreover, if decision makers pursue an applied advance when the underlying scientific principles remain poorly understood, they risk costly failures and a loss of support for the research enterprise at large. Examples include Nixon’s 1971 War on Cancer, undertaken on the premise that a cure could be achieved in less than a decade, the drive to build an operational commercial fusion plant by the mid-1990s, and the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, which failed to produce the effective treatments and prevention strategies promised by 2025. The contrasting laissez-faire approach is to hedge your bets. If the path to an advance is impossible to predict, then the wisest choice might be to distribute funding to as widely as possible. The main risk of this strategy is that spreading funding thinly may limit the resources available to the most promising research, resulting in the same negative outcomes as the interventionist approach: limited support for the most promising topics, slow progress, and delayed returns. In reality, at science agencies like the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, program managers navigate between these two extremes, setting some funds aside to target high-priority areas and using the rest to cover the widest possible range of meritorious proposals. This middle path seems like the most rational way to proceed, but it still requires making choices. How much should be set aside for high priority topics? What should those topics be? How should we define merit? Expert opinion can provide a helpful guide, but leading experts can have remarkably different opinions about what matters and what should be prioritized. Moreover, experts and administrators alike can be risk averse, giving an edge to high-profile, well-established concepts. What’s really needed is a data-driven framework to help guide decision-making, one that doesn’t simply repackage prestige or incumbency. Recognizing breakthroughs years in advance Many breakthroughs fail to attract funding or recognition at the earliest stages of development. Katalin Karikó, for example, spent years struggling to win grants for work on mRNA that would eventually win her and Drew Weissman a Nobel Prize. Similar stories can be told about Jim Allison’s groundbreaking studies leading to the development of cancer immunotherapy, Stan Pruisner’s demonstration that prions can self-replicate without DNA, or Robin Warren and Barry Marshall’s proof that Helicobacter pylori, not stress, causes ulcers. Yet at some point, the scientific community recognizes and responds to transformative breakthroughs like these. How does that change happen? And what if science funders could identify the areas that are on the cusp of a breakthrough? Those questions led my collaborators and me to study how scientists responded to past breakthroughs. Based on patterns in that data, we developed a means of predicting future breakthroughs, using biomedicine as a proof of concept. It’s worth taking a moment to describe how our approach works. Briefly, our prediction process begins by grouping the 18 million or so peer-reviewed papers in PubMed, the authoritative database of biomedical research, into roughly 50,000 unique topics. A small subset of these topics are so widely acclaimed as breakthroughs that they have been recognized with a major prize like a Nobel or a Lasker Award. We theorized that studying the development of these outliers over time, especially before they gained acclaim, was the key to identifying future instances of them. After defining topics, we chose 21 representative breakthroughs and asked what they looked like before they won prestigious prizes. To answer that question, we re-ran our topic-mapping algorithm repeatedly, winding back the clock one year each time, stringing together the years to follow the progress of each field as it grew and advanced. We found that in each case, the years leading up to a discovery followed a pattern: a burst of papers on a new, rapidly evolving topic, many of which quickly became influential. These characteristics—the percent of papers that are new, the percentage of papers that are brought in from other topics, and the influence of each individual paper—can all be measured separately for any given topic. Together, they act as a predictive signal that is detectable an average of five years before a transformative discovery is made, and up to thirty years before the discovery receives a major prize. Scanning the current research landscape for topics that display this signal allows us to predict what work will likely produce a future breakthrough. Each year we analyzed includes four or five signals, a number that appears to have remained constant across a twenty year time frame. In their classic work on the sociology of science, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar established that the desire to participate in a major discovery is an important motivator for scientists as they consider whether they should take up (or abandon) a research problem. Although further work is needed, the simplest explanation for our results is that this behavior is widespread enough to detect at scale. A foundational advance, or something like it, draws the attention of scientists and causes them to change the direction of their research. They vote with their feet, staking their own reputation and careers by publishing on and citing the new idea. That upswell of interest is the foundation of our breakthrough signal. What kind of research does our model identify as a breakthrough? After building a model based on the patterns in our 21 preselected breakthroughs, we tested it by identifying all early signals of discovery from 1994 through 1997. Of the 18 signals we found in that time period, 17 can be traced forward in time to a breakthrough. Examples include super-resolution fluorescence microscopy (see the image above), the directed evolution of proteins and enzymes (Chemistry Nobel, 2018), and sequencing the human genome (National Medal of Science, 2008). The discovery of the role of leptin signaling in obesity is a particularly interesting case study. Around 1950, scientists noticed the existence of a type of lab mouse that suffered from a unique inherited form of obesity. When given the freedom to choose their own diet, these mice ate more than normal and preferred food that was high in fat. Researchers had few clues as to why the animals overate; early experiments pointed to the existence of a soluble ob factor found circulating in the bloodstream that regulated appetite, but its identity was unknown. In 1994, Jeffrey Friedman and colleagues identified and sequenced the ob gene, noting that the protein it encoded appeared to fit the profile of a circulating factor. A year later, a trio of high-profile publications demonstrated that ob was a hormone that regulated body weight and fat deposition by regulating appetite. One of these was co-authored by Friedman, who christened it leptin from the ancient Greek word for thin. Using our model, the data from 1996 make it clear this advance would become a breakthrough. Scientists had flocked to study the biology of the new hormone, generating the flurry of new papers and citations required to produce a signal. One of these demonstrated that serum leptin concentrations reflected the amount of adipose tissue in the human body, providing clinical validation of the earlier mouse studies. Before the identification of leptin, scientists were unable to point to a specific molecule that controlled appetite and adiposity, so that it was impossible to rule out non-physiological causes of obesity; its characterization fundamentally changed our concept of weight gain. In 2010, Friedman and fellow pioneer Douglas Coleman were awarded a Lasker for the discovery. Our work also identifies breakthroughs in clinical practice and behavioral and social sciences, even though these areas are less likely to draw the attention of major prize committees. One example that falls into this category is the introduction of endovascular aneurysm repair, a minimally invasive surgical procedure for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, a leading cause of death among Americans over the age of 65. Relative to the previous standard of care, it reduces in-hospital mortality by almost four-fold. In 2017, Timothy Chuter received the American College of Surgeons’ prestigious Jacobsen Innovation award for his multiple refinements to the technique. Another under-recognized breakthrough identified by our model is the development of standardized survey instruments to assess the quality of life for HIV+ patients. The antiretroviral cocktails introduced in the mid-1990s reduced AIDS mortality, but treatment came with serious side effects. The new evaluations showed that patients whose disease progressed had worse physical functioning than Americans with other chronic diseases, while those who were asymptomatic maintained a health-related quality of life on par with the overall US population. This evidence made it possible for patients and activists to argue that even in the absence of a total cure, and in spite of the side effects, alleviation of symptoms was a worthwhile priority for clinicians. My colleagues and I have failed to identify any significant recognition for the physicians and health policy experts who pioneered this advance, although in 2016, researchers called for the World Health Organization to set targets for good health-related quality of life as part of its framework to end the AIDS pandemic. From forecasting to funding How should science funders use our predictions? Any serious discussion of what we should do with this new capability needs to begin with an understanding of its limitations. We can’t (and shouldn’t) invest all of our resources in the small number of topics predicted to produce breakthroughs. Innovative new fields are born from existing ones; they rarely arise de novo. If funders don’t maintain a diverse portfolio, the breakthroughs of tomorrow will have no antecedents. Think of this as eating the seed corn, or killing the goose that lays the golden egg. There are also multiple goals of funding beyond basic scientific discovery, including translating discoveries into clinical practice, developing new technologies, supporting economic development, and training new scientists. The investments needed to accomplish these goals are likely different from those required to support emerging breakthroughs. Finally, we must be aware that we may not capture every instance of a breakthrough. The concept is fuzzy, and not every significant discovery is recognized with a major award. Further, breakthroughs are rare, meaning that our dataset is, by necessity, small. This makes formal estimates of accuracy challenging. Although our overall success rate appears to be high, any one signal may turn out to be a false positive. We found one apparent example: the development of the third generation COX-2 inhibitors, Vioxx and Celebrex, which were much celebrated in the early 2000s as effective but non-addictive pain relievers, meets all the algorithmic criteria of a breakthrough. Five years after it received FDA approval, researchers demonstrated that Vioxx was associated with serious cardiovascular complications, and the manufacturer voluntarily pulled the drug from the market. Celebrex remains available, although like other NSAIDs, it carries an FDA warning for increased cardiovascular risk. Decision makers who were overly focused on the breakthrough potential of this research might have wasted substantial resources nurturing an area that ultimately proved to be a failure—but so would those who relied on expert opinion at the time. That said, the potential benefits of funding the next mRNA vaccine or cancer immunotherapy years earlier than we might have are large. When we can’t assume the outcome of an action, it’s worth conducting an experiment. Can targeted support for areas that are poised to produce a breakthrough increase the return on scientific investment without cannibalizing future advances? With the necessary administrative infrastructure in place, conducting this experiment would be straightforward. First, identify all the breakthrough signals between 2018 and 2023, select half at random, and commit to a decade of investment. For biomedicine, a six year window should yield about 30 topics with the potential to produce a breakthrough. Providing strong support to half of these might be accomplished for $300 million a year. That’s roughly half of the recent annual budget of the NIH Common Fund or around 20% of the fiscal year 2025 budget for ARPA-H. After five years, then again at ten, compare to see which group — the one that was actively managed, or the control — produced more breakthroughs, and on what timescale. Although we used biomedicine as an example, the same experiment could just as well be run for physics, materials science, or any other discipline. Any attempt to undertake such an experiment should keep three points top of mind. First, we can predict the topic of future breakthroughs, but the people and vision for how to move the work forward are still important. In practice, this means success requires active program managers with the expertise to develop the science and the authority to do so, including by recruiting investigators. Second, we would be wise to learn from the failures of past attempts to fund transformative research. High among these are funding modestly repackaged work, confusing the genuinely novel with the merely unfamiliar, and relying too much on incumbent investigators. All of these risks can be mitigated by thoroughly and intelligently integrating high quality data into portfolio management. Finally, we need to have patience. Even with strong funding support, producing a breakthrough takes time. If supporting breakthroughs is the best way to nurture the birth of new fields, we also need to accurately describe and properly manage the other two stages, so that we invest wisely throughout the productive lifetime of ideas and divest once they reach the point of diminishing returns. We would benefit from more study of all of these phases, especially the transition from one to another. More research could answer questions like: When does a breakthrough become an established field? How do the availability of funding, the size and characteristics of the available workforce, and the accumulation of evidence that disagrees with prevailing models affect a field’s decline? Exactly how do old ideas give birth to new ones, and can we speed up the process? The more we understand about the dynamics of scientific progress, the better we can maximize the odds that our curiosity leads to results. I’d call that finding a way to make our own luck.

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Jun 25 • 4:48 PM EDT • Science • goodscience.substack.com
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Ohio politicians respond to Supreme Court TPS ruling for Haitians and Syrians

The decision impacts more than 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians across the country, including many in Ohio.

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Jun 25 • 4:37 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
Honoring the best in small business

Fifth Street Renaissance, Resource One, Cured Catering, and ChangeBridge Consulting are all honored.

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Jun 25 • 1:58 PM EDT • Business • capitolcitynow.com
Six Female Student-Athletes Named to College Sports Communicators At Large Academic All-District Team

Springfield, Mass. – June 23, 2026 – Six Springfield College student-athletes were named to the 2026 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team this year.

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Jun 25 • 11:05 AM EDT • Sports • springfieldcollegepride.com
Spring Sports Roundup

Colby's student-athletes enjoy a season of success and achievement Colby's student-athletes enjoy a season of success and achievement

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Jun 25 • 10:49 AM EDT • Sports • news.colby.edu
Alliance Orthopedics high school sports polls June update. Who are the winners?

That's a wrap on the spring season for Shore Conference high school sports. Let's go over the list of winners of polls sponsored by Alliance Orthopedics

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Jun 25 • 12:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Turquoise Tint for the Black Sea

Phytoplankton added a milky blue hue to the waters of the Black Sea and nearby waterways in spring and summer 2026.

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Jun 25 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Multi-wavelength spin dynamics of defects in hexagonal boron nitride

Light: Science & Applications - Different excitation wavelengths strongly influence the spin dynamics and photophysics of single spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride, enabling a threefold...

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Jun 24 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
IHSA reacts as lawmakers propose bill requiring oversight on girls' sports impact

A new bill in Springfield would seek to overturn an IHSA decision to change the girls' high school flag football season

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Jun 24 • 5:49 PM EDT • Sports • nbcchicago.com
Patriots Coach Jeremy Springer Announces Engagement To NBC Sports Host Kayla Burton

NBC Sports host Kayla Burton is engaged to an NFL coach. The popular Boston-based sports media personality announced her engagement to New England Patriots special teams coordinator Jeremy Springer. The two announced their big news in a joint Instagram post Monday, sharing photos from the NFL ...

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Jun 24 • 5:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Future Leader: Josh Wilson, Senior Market Partnerships Specialist, Wayspring

Josh Wilson, Senior Market Partnerships Specialist at Wayspring, has been named to the Future Leaders Class of 2026 by Behavioral Health Business. To

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Jun 24 • 2:00 PM EDT • Business • bhbusiness.com
Fire at Whiteaker business now being investigated as arson

KVAL CBS 13 is the news, sports and weather source for Eugene, Oregon and nearby communities, including Springfield, Santa Clara, Coburg, Pleasant Hill, Creswell, Churchill, Alvadore, Marcola, Dexter, Thurston, Junction City, Brownsville, Harrisburg, Alvadore, Veneta and Alpine.

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Jun 24 • 11:59 AM EDT • Business • kval.com
Researchers study Spring wildfire health effects on rural, agricultural communities
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Jun 24 • 10:29 AM EDT • Health • nebraska.tv
First Look: The new 37mm Grand Seiko Spring Drive UFA Lake Suwa SLGB015

The new Grand Seiko Evolution 9 collection SLGB015 is a 37mm interpretation of the blue Lake Suwa dial, with the UFA movement.

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Jun 23 • 11:01 PM EDT • Technology • monochrome-watches.com
The Grand Seiko Evolution 9 Spring Drive U.F.A. Models Get Serious Fan-Requested Updates

✓ Grand Seiko Evolution 9 gets five Spring Drive U.F.A. models ✓ New 9RB2 accuracy, materials, and clasp ✓ See them here

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Jun 23 • 11:00 PM EDT • Technology • fratellowatches.com
Bills legend Jim Kelly reveals he suffered stroke this spring

A Hall of Fame quarterback revealed he dealt with a health scare recently.

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Jun 23 • 9:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bills legend Jim Kelly provides update on condition after stroke

After beating cancer in 2019, Bills legend Jim Kelly revealed that he suffered a setback while recovering from a spring stroke.

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Jun 23 • 8:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Circulating metabolites at the crossroads of lifestyle and brain health

Nature Aging - Circulating metabolites might provide early insights into brain aging before clinical symptoms appear. Ahmad and colleagues show that specific blood metabolites in midlife are...

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Jun 23 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Travy Awards: Vote for the top plays of the spring sports season

With the season in the books, WMTW sports anchor Travis Lee has revealed the winners for the top plays made in Maine high school spring sports.

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Jun 23 • 4:16 PM EDT • Sports • wmtw.com
New-To-Science Spider Engineers Smelly, Spring-Loaded Snares To Catapult Its Aggressive Prey

The tension in the silk of the scent-laden snare is enough to yeet ants into the spider's main web.

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Jun 23 • 10:12 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
Watch the first-ever video of a newfound spider’s spring-loaded death trap

Scientists discovered that the Australian “ballista spider” uses a silk cone trap to catapult prey into its web, a feat of spider engineering never before observed.

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Jun 23 • 9:50 AM EDT • Science • cnn.com
One transfer portal addition who could swing College Football Playoff hopes for every post-spring top 25 team

From must-perform offensive linemen to ceiling-raising quarterbacks, these 25 transfers are poised to change the College Football Playoff race in 2026

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Jun 23 • 9:33 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Fermented food microbiome: influence on oral and gut microbiota, and human health

Nature Reviews Microbiology - The bioactive compounds and microbial consortia contained in plant-based fermented foods support oral and gut microbiota, host immune function and metabolic...

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Jun 22 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Who’s building and who’s buying in Greater Baton Rouge

The latest issued permits and property transactions in East Baton Rouge, Ascension and Livingston parishes. East Baton Rouge Parish Denham Springs holding company Top Holdings purchased the To… Already an INSIDER? Sign in. Already an INSIDER? Sign in

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Jun 22 • 3:36 PM EDT • Business • businessreport.com
Celebrating the Outstanding Spring 2026 Graduates from Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences’ Colleges and Schools

Each year, outstanding graduates from the colleges and schools within Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University are recognized with Commencement awards honoring academic excellence, leadership, service and contributions to their professions and communities. Congratulations to the Spring 2026 honorees. Alumni Association Outstanding Scholar Awards Ellmer College of Health Sciences at Old Dominion University Jodee Pugh Ellmer School of Nursing at Old Dominion University

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Jun 22 • 12:54 PM EDT • Science • odu.edu
Celebrating the Outstanding Spring 2026 Graduates from Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences’ Colleges and Schools

Each year, outstanding graduates from the colleges and schools within Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University are recognized with Commencement awards honoring academic excellence, leadership, service and contributions to their professions and communities. Congratulations to the Spring 2026 honorees. Alumni Association Outstanding Scholar Awards Ellmer College of Health Sciences at Old Dominion University Jodee Pugh Ellmer School of Nursing at Old Dominion University

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Jun 22 • 12:54 PM EDT • Health • odu.edu
Clive Davis, legendary music executive, dies at 94

Clive Davis, the legendary music executive who worked with Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, and many others, has died at 94.

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Jun 22 • 12:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
UVA Names Darden Vice Dean as Business School’s New Leader

Yael Grushka-Cockayne, an accomplished international scholar and leader, has served on Darden’s faculty since 2009.

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Jun 22 • 11:58 AM EDT • Business • news.darden.virginia.edu
Clive Davis, Legendary Executive Who Helped Shape Modern Music, Has Died

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee fostered the careers of icons including Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin and Aerosmith.

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Jun 22 • 11:48 AM EDT • Entertainment • huffpost.com
Thousands more business owners  — including Springfield council members — disclosing taxable property to keep business license

Learn about the challenges small business owners face in Springfield with the new ordinance requiring payment of business personal property taxes.

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Jun 22 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • sgfcitizen.org
$24M Springfield sports, wellness center to begin construction this year

A downtown Springfield indoor sports and wellness facility will begin construction this year thanks in part to state capital funds.

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Jun 22 • 4:10 AM EDT • Business • springfieldnewssun.com
Multi-omics insights into floral–fruity aroma formation during Pu’er tea fermentation inoculated with a synthetic fungal community

npj Science of Food - Multi-omics insights into floral–fruity aroma formation during Pu’er tea fermentation inoculated with a synthetic fungal community

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Jun 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
The growing concentration of national influence in global science

Nature Human Behaviour - This analysis of nearly 240 million scientific papers reveals growing concentration of discursive influence in core, resource-wealthy countries, indicating that a few...

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Jun 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nature.com
A cloud-based miniscope for neurosurveillance of brain health and disease in freely behaving animals

Nature Methods - A miniscope with cloud-based operation and multicontrast capabilities enables continuous recording of neuronal activity, hemodynamics or cellular dynamics over multiple days. This...

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Jun 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Long-term health risks of e-cigarettes after smoking cessation

Nature Medicine - Real‑world evidence from a nationwide cohort suggests that using electronic cigarettes after smoking cessation may attenuate the benefits of quitting in reducing lung cancer...

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Jun 21 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • nature.com
Construction starts on 7th Highlands Oncology Center

Springdale-based cancer-care provider Highlands Oncology recently broke ground on a five-story, 125,000-square-foot cancer-care center along Interstate 49 in the Pinnacle Hills area of Rogers. The Rogers Cancer Center at 4872...

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Jun 21 • 6:07 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
UFL viewership stays level from Year 2 to Year 3

It seems as if the UFL, the upstart spring football league that just completed its third season, is finding somewhat of a baseline when it comes to viewership. The league averaged 674,000 viewers in its third season across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Fox, FS1, and NFL Network, up 1% versus average viewership in its second season…

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Jun 21 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Handing off a family business: Time turns another page from one generation to the next

Was it worth the sacrifices our family made? Maybe it will take years to reap the harvest of our decisions.

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Jun 21 • 8:17 AM EDT • Business • lookouteugene-springfield.com
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5 Florida restaurants, breweries that host weekly trivia nights

Several Treasure Coast bars, breweries and restaurants host trivia nights. Here are 5 to try. What's your trivia forte?

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Jun 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • tcpalm.com
Adam Minter: The farm crisis demands certainty from congress now

Something is breaking in farm country, and the warning signs are growing harder to ignore. The clearest indicator arrived this spring, when farm bankruptcies reached their highest level in six

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Jun 21 • 4:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Fire crews respond to 2:30 a.m. blaze at Whiteaker business

Eugene Springfield Fire responded to an early morning fire at a business in Eugene’s Whitaker neighborhood on Saturday.At just after 2:30 a.m. on June 20, call

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Jun 20 • 4:55 PM EDT • Business • nbc16.com
Fire crews respond to 2:30 a.m. blaze at Whiteaker business

Eugene Springfield Fire responded to an early morning fire at a business in Eugene’s Whitaker neighborhood on Saturday.At just after 2:30 a.m. on June 20, call

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Jun 20 • 4:55 PM EDT • Business • kval.com
Fire crews respond to 2:30 a.m. blaze at Whiteaker business

KVAL CBS 13 is the news, sports and weather source for Eugene, Oregon and nearby communities, including Springfield, Santa Clara, Coburg, Pleasant Hill, Creswell, Churchill, Alvadore, Marcola, Dexter, Thurston, Junction City, Brownsville, Harrisburg, Alvadore, Veneta and Alpine.

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Jun 20 • 4:55 PM EDT • Business • kval.com
Daveigh Chase's mother says late 'The Ring' star struggled with addiction after back injury: 'She was completely gone'

Daveigh Chase's mother said that 'drugs took hold of' the late 'Lilo & Stitch' actress after she was prescribed painkillers for a back injury she sustained in a motorcycle accident around 2016.

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Jun 20 • 1:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
What's Going There: Major retail, dining and entertainment projects take shape on St. George's east side

Piles of lumber, tractors, workers walking around in hard hats – welcome to Southern Utah. The area's growth is seemingly unstoppable, with new buildings and renovations springing up everywhere you

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Jun 20 • 1:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • stgeorgeutah.com
10 jaw-dropping discoveries from the world’s only museum entirely dedicated to The X-Files

In Saratoga Springs, New York

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Jun 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
Springfield schools business manager: When bidding out bus fuel, it’s all about the markup

The sellers' profit margins are really what are up for bid.

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Jun 20 • 6:01 AM EDT • Business • capitolcitynow.com
‘We’d love to see prices go down’: Colorado Springs business looks ahead amid falling diesel prices

Within the past month, Colorado has seen record-breaking diesel prices.

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Oakes Farms withdraws plans for new Bonita Springs entertainment complex

Oakes Farms has withdrawn its proposal to transform the old greyhound track in Bonita Springs into an entertainment complex.

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Jun 19 • 8:11 AM EDT • Entertainment • winknews.com
NE10 Announces Sport Excellence for 2026 Spring

NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. – The Northeast 10 Conference recognized seven student-athletes from the spring season as Sport Excellence Award winners on Friday afternoon, honoring their outstanding athletic and academic achievements.

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Jun 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • northeast10.org